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Hey guys! New to this site, but I looked for this thread and couldn’t find one. My truck has been sitting in limbo for about 2 years. Now I have decided that I want to build the V10. Just trying to get a plan set up because I know lots of things will be 1-off and not done ever before. I would really like the setup to be ;the whipple kit that they made for the 6.8, 07-09 gt500 pistons, ported heads and custom grind cams. But that is were I run into the problems, someone on another forum site used to grind them.. but he has since been banned. Now I am lost on who would have a blank and facilities to do this/want to! Thank you guys in advance for any help/ info!! Also, please don’t come on here with the sell it or swap it comments.
Talk to Steve Demos @ Demos' Cams; he does a lot of regrinds if your cores are good. You'd have to ask him if his dividing head can do a 10 cylinder engine.
The reason you do not see "anything" anywhere about Ford V10 performance is, there is "none"
The V10 was it, then sadly turbos on everything small now days for gasoline
So, if you've got a F600 and some room, turbo the 6.8
what was around 20 years ago didn't get built much, bell had a blower kit, ford racing was playing with a prototype whipple for the 3 valve, even had a few airport vans burning hydrogen, a few header kits of which he may find one or two in limited numbers. maybe a NOS cold air kit,
the biggest issue was production numbers, which was the simple answer, pouring protype money into items for the PSD's made more sense ,
real world the v10's did have a issue in how the crankshaft was made .rev them to far they would snap right in the middle of a rod area,
That's the first thing we all saw at the dealer back when the V10's came out
Numerous broken crankshafts
Still like to have one but hotrodding one might be futile
That cast crank is damn thin in spots, and a forged one is not available
It is interesting how Ford decided to go with the offset throw/even fire configuration whereas Chrysler didn't do that in their 90 degree V10. Also Ford used different balancing with a balance shaft and Chrysler didn't. I'm not sure how the rocking couples work in a V10.
v10 wise, seems mopar felt the strength of the crank with a odd firing order made more sense,they surily proved it in the viper and big ram's with it, man could that motor scream, warranty wise my 05 3 valve was one of the broken crank monsters, snapped right by number 1, short block time at 10.000 miles
With as much stuff that's different on the Chrysler V10 vs the LA engines I'm surprised that they didn't use a 72 degree V configuration. The Ford is much more similar to the other Modular engines so it made sense to keep them at 90 degree and share the same or similar tooling.
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